Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

preprimitive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: preprim-i-tive
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Before a primitive age.

adj

Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.

Example Sentences

"The Stony Hill Cemetery, lying beyond the “heavily wooded areas of maple oak,” remains in an essentially preprimitive state."
"[…]John Smith remarked them as he coasted by / Dangling their legs and fishing off a wharf / At the Isles of Shoals, and satisfied himself They weren't Red Indians but veritable Pre-primitives of the white race, dawn people, Like those who furnished Adam's sons with wives; […]"

Etymology

From pre- + primitive.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Questions

What does preprimitive mean?: Before a primitive age.
Where does preprimitive come from?: From pre- + primitive.

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